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G. Campbell Lyman
"Pilgrimage" - Contemporary Multimedia Abstract Painting

2020

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A large and imposing painting from the recent series combining tar with oil and acrylic, a painting using a limited palette to powerful effect. There are echoes of Robert Motherwell here, but with a rougher, edgier and more industrial and contemporary quality. Artist's statement: "After a period of making big, colorful acrylic paintings, I went back to something I did a few years ago: creating the basic composition using tar, and then going in with oil and acrylic - stopping at a certain point each day and then returning to the picture to see if freshly, and quickly addressing imbalances that were newly apparent due to looking with new eyes. Tar is tricky, because once it gets mixed with the oil, which it inevitably does, it has a way of migrating back up through the oil. In some cases this is aesthetically pleasing, and in others you have to subdue it by adding paint. As you can see, I limited my color palette (purposely) - there is some blue and some very subtle hints of viridian green. This painting took me a long time, and was sometimes frustrating to work on, but from the first night I left knowing I had something really good in the works. This is frankly one of my favorites in years." “Lyman’s work evolves restlessly, with the common elements generally being deft and unusual color choices that balance assonance and dissonance, and vestiges of the hand and facture purposely left in the paintings. The negative space is often so meticulously worked that it’s almost as if the objects – usually simple shapes – are there as much to complement the background as vice versa. Despite the often bold colors there is an elegance about his paintings that prevents them from being either loud or decorative. " Artbeit Zeitschrift “His paintings are a refreshing departure from the current abstract art world’s seemingly endless parade of fields of color with scribbles providing form, a style that is easily mimicked and has become a sort of “safe,” accessible go-to. There are confident decisions in these paintings appearing as commitments of strongly delineated forms and unexpected collisions of color that give the work a visceral, confident and playful soul, increasingly missing from contemporary expressionist abstraction. They are the paintings of a real painter rather than a decorative artist.” ArtSeen, 2018
  • Creator:
    G. Campbell Lyman (1960, American)
  • Creation Year:
    2020
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 24 in (60.96 cm)Width: 48 in (121.92 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
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  • Condition:
  • Gallery Location:
    New Orleans, LA
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU99435970512
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